Ilocano (Iloko, Ilóko, Ilokáno) Ilocano (also written Iloko or Ilóko) is an Austronesian language spoken in the northern Philippines and by diaspora communities abroad. It is one of the country’s major regional languages and serves both as a mother tongue and a regional lingua franca across much of northern Luzon and parts of central and […]
The Igbo language
Igbo Language The Igbo language (Asụsụ Igbo) is the principal language of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, one of the world’s largest language families, and is further classified under the Atlantic–Congo branch, within the Volta–Niger subgroup. Igbo is closely related to other Volta–Niger languages such as Yoruba, […]
The Icelandic language
Icelandic Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in Iceland. It retains many conservative morphological and lexical features inherited from Old Norse and is noted for a rich literary tradition that begins in the medieval period with the Icelandic sagas. Classification Icelandic belongs to the Indo-European → Germanic → […]
The Hungarian language
The Hungarian Language Hungarian (Magyar) is a member of the Uralic language family, belonging specifically to the Finno-Ugric branch, and more narrowly to the Ugric subgroup. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the few non-Indo-European languages spoken widely in Central Europe. With approximately 13–15 million speakers worldwide, Hungarian is by far […]